Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back lyrics

In the right light, study becomes insight

But the system that dissed us

Teaches us to read and write

So-called facts are fraud

They want us to allege and pledge

And bow down to their God

Lost the culture, the culture lost

Spun our minds and through time

Ignorance has taken over

We gotta take the power back

Bam, Here's the plan

Mother fuck Uncle Sam

Step back, I know who I am

Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear

It's the beast and lyrics they fear

The rage is relentless

We need a movement with quickness

You are the witness of change

And to counteract

We gotta take the power back

Chorus:

We gotta take the power back

We gotta take the power back

The president curriculums

I put my fist in 'em

Eurocentric every last one of 'em

See right through the red, white and blue disguise

With lecture, I puncture the structure of lies

Installed in our minds and attempting

To hold us back

We've got to take it back

'Cause holes in our spirits causin' tears and fears

One-sided stories for years and years and years

I'm inferior? Who's inferior?

Yea, we needa check the interior

Of the system who cares about only one culture

And that is why

We gotta take the power back

Chorus

The teacher stands in front of the class

But the lesson plan he can't recall

The student's eyes don't percieve the lies

Bouncing of every fucking wall

His composure is well kept

I guess he fears playing the fool

The complacent students sit and listen to the

Bull shit that he learned in school

Europe ain't my rope to swing on

Can't learn a thing from it

Yet we hang from it

Gotta get it, gotta get it together then

Like the mother fuckin weathermen

To expose and close the doors on those who try

To strangle and mangle the truth

'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react

We gotta take the power back

Chorus

No more lies